Trying to purchase a Senior Coachcard
 

I'm trying to purchase a Senior Coachcard for travel and am having difficulty with the website accepting my payment. Or maybe the UK website has detected that I am in the US making this purchase.

I've tried 3 different credit cards and all I've succeeded in doing is setting up fraud alerts on all of them as a results of trying the transaction. I spent quite a bit of time on the phone with Capital One as they assured me that the charge would no longer be blocked. They stayed on the phone with me and the charge didn't even go through to the Capital One.

I spent some time with the National Express online chat agent who said he could see that the transactions had been rejected by my charge card companies.

But I'm beginning to think that it has something to do with trying to purchase it from a USA ISP.

Just wondering if anyone else has worked around it.

I can purchase it when I land in Heathrow but the coach ticket is much much cheaper if I purchase it ahead of time; and certainly even cheaper with the senior card.


http://www.nationalexpress.com/wayst...coachcard.aspx

Have you considered booking a train in advance to get a cheap fare that's not much more than a downmarket bus?

I booked a first class train ticket from York to London in a month's time for £32 this morning, and that includes wine and a light meal! I could have travelled 2nd class for half that, which isn't much more than it would cost to endure a coach.

Journey time is often halved, and depressing motorway swapped for scenic countryside seen from a train.

If you still want the senior coach card . . . per the website >> . . . or purchase from one of our ticket outlets.<< So you don't need to pre-purchase the card.

I likely wouldn't myself since the trains are so convenient/comfortable -- there is also a senior railcard BTW that gets you very good discounts. For the senior railcard -- download the application and take it w/ you to the UK. Then pay for and collect your senior card at the same time you collect your tickets. You'd want to pre-book to get the cheapest tickets but you only need the senior railcard to pick up the tix, NOT to buy them. So you can book your advance purchase and senior discounted ticket on line as if you already had the railcard, then pay for and collect the railcard at the station.